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RANK-DIFFERENCE CORRELATION COEFFICIENT
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables
Synonyms:
rank-difference correlation; rank-difference correlation coefficient; rank-order correlation; rank-order correlation coefficient
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("rank-difference correlation coefficient" is a kind of...):
distribution free statistic; nonparametric statistic (a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
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